Action Alert: Horses Need Our Help

Although horse slaughter is illegal in the USA, we routinely ship horses overseas to be slaughtered and sold as meat. Here are three major reasons why this needs to stop:

1. The transportation process is cruel and lengthy. Each year, more than 130,000 horses are slaughtered in Canada and Mexico. To get to the slaughterhouse, they are often crammed into trailers and transported through subfreezing temperatures for days without food or water. 2. Horses are routinely given certain drugs that the FDA considers unfit for human consumption. It is therefore illegal to sell horsemeat in America. So, on a humanitarian level, how is it considered ethical to sell horsemeat to people in other countries? 3. Horse slaughter plants are eco-disasters. They pollute waterways and lower property values, and fill the air with a horrible stench.